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Knowledge
Burghardt DuBois
the
great black educator
sociologist
and historian
upon completion of studies at
Fisk
Harvard and the University of Berlin
was convinced that change in the
condition of the American black could be effected by careful scientific
investigations into the truth about the black in America. So he proceeded. His
research was flawless and his graphs and charts impeccable. After waiting
several years and hearing not the slightest stir of reform
Dr. DuBois had to
accept the truth about Truth: Its being available does not mean it will be
appropriated.
Fred B. Craddock
Overhearing
the Gospel.
A black preacher
introduced a guest speaker with the following: "The man we has speaking to
us is a man who knows the unknowable
can solve the unsolvable and can screw
the inscrutable."
S.L. Johnson.
The sum total of man's
knowledge could be represented graphically:
Up to 1845 = 1 inch
1845 to 1945 = 3 inches
1945 to 1976 = the height of the Washington Monument
John McArthur
tape on
Ephesians 5:15-17.
He not only overflowed
with learning
but stood in the slop.
Rev. Sidney Smith quoted
in: Nancy McPhee
The Book of Insults
Ancient and Modern.
For every man
education
should be a process which continues all his life. We have to abandon
as
swiftly as possible
the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth.
How can it be
in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer
true at 40--and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he
was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke in The
View From Serendip.
Knowledge is exploding at
such a rate--more than 2000 pages a minute--that even Einstein couldn't keep
up. In fact
if you read 24 hours a day
from age 21 to 70
and retained all
you read
you would be one and a half million years behind when you finished.
Campus Life
February
1979.
Wesley was not an advocate
of sensationalism in preaching. But on one occasion
he interrupted his own
sermon and shouted
"Lord
is Saul also among the prophets? Is James
Watson here? If he be
show Thy power!" And James Watson dropped to the
floor and began to cry loudly for God's mercy!
W. Wiersbe
Wycliffe
Handbook of Preaching and Preachers
Moody Press
1984
p. 247.
At a Monday evening prayer
meeting
Charles Spurgeon suddenly interrupted his sermon
pointed in a certain
direction
and said
"Young man
those gloves you are wearing have not
been paid for; you have stolen them from your employer!" After the meeting
a young man came to the vestry and begged to see Spurgeon. Pale and trembling
the young man confessed that he had stolen the gloves he was wearing! He
promised never to steal again and begged Spurgeon not to expose him to his
employer.
W. Wiersbe
Wycliffe
Handbook of Preaching and Preachers
Moody Press
1984
p. 219.
When Charles Spurgeon was
pastor at New Park Street in London
God used his words to bring about amazing
changes in the lives of people. A man who was on his way to get some gin saw
the crowd at the church door and pushed his way in to see what was going on. At
that moment
Spurgeon turned and faced the man and said that there was a man in
the gallery who had a gin bottle in his pocket and had come with no good
motive. The startled man listened to the rest of the message and was converted.
One evening a prostitute
on her way to Blackfriars Bridge to commit suicide
stopped at the church
hoping to hear some word that would prepare her to meet
her maker. Spurgeon was preaching from Luke 7:36-50
the story of the prostitute
who wiped Jesus feet with her tears. His text was verse 44; "Seest thou
this woman?" As Spurgeon preached
the woman saw herself but also saw the
grace of God and trusted Christ.
W. Wiersbe
Wycliffe
Handbook of Preaching and Preachers
Moody Press
1984
p. 231.